Tajik President solicits OSCE assistance for democratic elections
Imomali Rakhmonov on 3 February assured
visiting OSCE Secretary-General Jan Kubis that he will do everything in
his power to ensure that the upcoming parliamentary elections are democratic.
At the same time, he requested the help of the OSCE in achieving that objective,
ITAR-TASS and Asia Plus-Blitz reported. Rakhmonov also expressed an interest
in possible OSCE assistance in post-conflict rehabilitation. Kubis, who
in 1998-1999 served as the special representative in Tajikistan of the
UN secretary-general, also met on 3 February with Tajik Foreign Minister
Talbak Nazarov and with National Reconciliation Commission Chairman Said
Abdullo Nuri to discuss the situation in the country. On 4 February, ITAR-TASS
quoted a German Embassy official in Dushanbe as saying that the German
government has allocated $100,000 to finance the activities of the joint
UN/OSCE commission that will monitor the parliamentary elections. The Iranian
Embassy has donated 20 tons of paper to the Central Commission for Elections
and Referenda, according to Asia Pluz-Blitz. LF
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